NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
45 
ON POLYPI. 
Lost River, W.Va., Feb. 15, 1883. 
Prof. Liautard : 
In the summer of 1870, I had a severe attack of eczema on 
my arm. Shortly afterwards a polypus began to grow in my 
right nostril very near the cavity leading into the head. Several 
regular physicians prescribed for the eczema without effect. They 
also removed the polypus, once by ligature, and twice with for¬ 
ceps, without cure. Some time afterward a then recent graduate 
prescribed for the eczema:—carbolic acid, 3 vi; glycerine, 3 iii; 
aqua, 3 iv. This effected a speedy cure. Being intensly wor¬ 
ried with the polypus, I concluded to try the same prescription 
upon it. I applied it twice a day with the end of my finger. 
In two weeks it reduced the polypus to a hard shriveled lump, 
which I then twisted out by the simple use of my forefinger. It 
has not since returned. Upon my recommendation two similar 
cases have been effectually treated with the same prescription. 
A little more than a year since a siinilas polypus formed in 
the nose of a thoroughbread short-horn heifer of mine, and be¬ 
came so large, before I was aware of its existence, that it seemed 
to close the nostril. I took one ounce of officinal solution of car¬ 
bolic acid, and added to it three ounces of water, and applied it 
twice a day for eighteen days and then twisted out the dried up 
remains. It lias not since returned. 
Very truly yours, 
J. Ward Wood. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
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died from glanders contracted from a horse. 
Tubercle Antidote. —M. de Korab asserts that he has found 
the employment of helenine to be inimical to the development of 
the bacilli of tuberculosis.— W. Med. Reporter. 
Swine Census. —In 1882 Ohio had 1,624,097 hogs, while in 
